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Benito, Ricard; Alegre, Miquel Àngel; Gonzàlez, Isaac – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
In its advancement towards an education quasi-market, Catalonia has recently been driving the development of "school educational projects" in all schools (both public and private) as a tool to facilitate school autonomy and family choices. A school educational project is a formal document in which schools identify their pedagogical…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
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Sharma, Lalit – Higher Education for the Future, 2015
Lee, Chang & Lim (2005) state that the impact of entrepreneurship education in each country is different because of each country's unique culture with regard to entrepreneurship. Going by the above argument, this research paper intends to make a formal enquiry on whether the above effect holds true for different regions within a particular…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Youth Opportunities, Regional Characteristics, Performance Factors
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Mifsud, Mark; Verret, Marielle – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2015
The marine environment represents a central component of Malta's local environment, and its ecosystem services play a vital role in supporting the economy as well as human well-being. Plans have been made to protect the unique ecology found within Maltese waters through the institution of five marine protected areas (MPAs). This quantitative study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marine Education, Marine Biology, Ecology
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Walker, Olga L.; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Henderson, Heather A. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between maternal reports of social fear at 24 months and social behaviors with an unfamiliar peer during play at 36 months, using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kashy & Kenny, 1999). The APIM model was used to not only replicate previous findings of direct effects of…
Descriptors: Fear, Play, Social Influences, Peer Relationship
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Wozencroft, Angela J.; Pate, Joshua R.; Griffiths, Haley K. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2015
This research uses contact theory to examine the impact of a service learning class on college students' attitudes toward people with disabilities. Students were involved in both lecture material and working directly with people with disabilities in a therapeutic camp environment. Eighty-four students responded to the questionnaires at three time…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Service Learning, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Lane, Rod; Catling, Simon – Journal of Geography, 2016
Climatic hazards are a key feature of life. It is vital that teachers are knowledgeable about these phenomena in order to develop their students' understanding of them. This study used a mixed methods approach to examine the accuracy and depth of preservice primary teachers' (n = 430) knowledge of tropical cyclones. The findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Accuracy, Knowledge Level, Natural Disasters
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Ellili-Cherif, Maha – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
The purpose of this research was to investigate female Arab college students' use of and perceptions about social networking sites (SNSs) as an English language learning environment. A mixed methods approach was adopted for data collection and analysis. First, a questionnaire was used to explore the extent to which participants (n = 182) were…
Descriptors: Females, Arabs, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Norman, Tal; Degani, Tamar; Peleg, Orna – Second Language Research, 2016
The present study examined visual word recognition processes in Hebrew (a Semitic language) among beginning learners whose first language (L1) was either Semitic (Arabic) or Indo-European (e.g. English). To examine if learners, like native Hebrew speakers, exhibit morphological sensitivity to root and word-pattern morphemes, learners made an…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Word Recognition, Morphemes
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Tiernan, Peter – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of enterprise education on students' understanding of and attitudes to entrepreneurship and enterprise education in initial teacher education. Design/methodology/approach: This paper builds on current literature by introducing student teachers to the theory and practice of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Entrepreneurship, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Bello, Theodora Olufunke – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study identified the different cultural concepts that secondary school students' believe in and determined the belief and idea of students about the cultural concepts. It also investigated students' source of information about the cultural concepts and determined the influence of these cultural believes on students' academic performance in…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cultural Influences, Beliefs, Values
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Ahmed, Rafiuddin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Students' use of test information to prepare for a test in a controlled or supervised test environment has been examined in studies outside Australia. This paper reports the findings of the use of test information and its value, in terms of an improvement/decline in marks, in an actual test of an undergraduate subject taught at an Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Questionnaires, Student Surveys
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Douna, Poulcheria; Kyridis, Argyris; Zagkos, Christos; Ziontaki, Zoi; Pandis, Prokopis – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
During the last decades, there has occurred an increasing interest in the research literature regarding college teaching. Especially the image of the professor is often combined with various stereotypes, prejudiced attitudes and misunderstandings since it is connected with the correlated situation in universities. The current paper is dealing with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Effectiveness
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O'Connor, Evelyn A.; Yasik, Anastasia E.; Horner, Sherri L. – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2016
In the United States increasingly more children are being identified as needing special services. Teachers are usually the first to identify children in need of such services and refer those children for evaluation. Due to the fact that more of these children are being included in the regular classroom environment, it is imperative for teachers to…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Legislation, School Law, Familiarity
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Eick, Uri; Rubinstein, Tanya; Hertz, Shai; Slater, Aylon – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2016
Hoshen, the Hebrew acronym for "Education & Change", is a nonprofit, nationwide education and information center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Israel. The main educational method Hoshen uses is the personal story told by volunteers. The present study aimed to examine whether this activity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity
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Shafiee Nahrkhalaji, Saeedeh; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza; Koosha, Mansour – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The present study aims to reveal some facts concerning first language (L[subscript 1]) and second language (L[subscript 2]) spoken-word processing in unbalanced proficient bilinguals using behavioral measures. The intention here is to examine the effects of auditory repetition word priming and semantic priming in first and second languages of…
Descriptors: English, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism, Language Processing
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